Chains Quotes - Page 26

• Keep skid chains on your tongue. Say less than you think. Cultivate a pleasant voice. How you say it is often more important than what you say.

  Ann Landers

  Thinking, Talking, Voice

  Ann Landers (1981). “Ann Lander's Encyclopedia, A to Z: Improve Your Life Emotionally, Medically, Sexually, Socially, Spiritually”, Ballantine Books

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• If e'er I win a parting token,
  'Tis something that has lost its power--
  A chain that has been used and broken,
  A ruin'd glove, a faded flower;
  Something that makes my pleasure less,
  Something that means--forgetfulness.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Flower, Mean, Winning

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• When I go to bed at night, I've got so much grease on my body I wear snow chains to hold up my gown.

  Phyllis Diller

  Night, Snow, Grease

  Phyllis Diller (2006). “Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse: My Life in Comedy”, p.209, Penguin

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• Thus does the Muse herself move men divinely inspired, and through them thus inspired a Chain hangs together of others inspired divinely likewise.

  Plato

  Moving, Men, Together

  Plato (1851). “The Works of Plato: Philebus, Charmides, Laches, Menexenus, Hippias major, Hippias minor, Ion, First Alcibiades, Second Alcibiades, Theages, The rivals, Hipparchus. Minos, Clitopho, The epistles”, p.295

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• Do not worry! Earthly goods deceive the human heart into believing that they give it security and freedom from worry. But in truth, they are what cause anxiety. The heart which clings to goods receives with them the choking burden of worry. Worry collects treasures, and treasures produce more worries. We desire to secure our lives with earthly goods; we want our worrying to make us worry-free, but the truth is the opposite. The chains which bind us to earthly goods, the clutches which hold the goods tight, are themselves worries.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Believe, Heart, Opposites

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• Distinguisht Link in Being's endless Chain!
  Midway from Nothing to the Deity!

  Edward Young

  Science, Links, Deities

  Edward Young (1743). “The complaint, or, Night-thoughts on life, death, & immortality”, p.15

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• The whole problem of industrial agriculture is putting all of your eggs in one basket. We need to diversify our food chains as well as our fields so that when some of them fail, we can still eat.

  Michael Pollan

  Eggs, Agriculture, Needs

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Thank god now for social media and just e-commerce. Now designers have a direct pipeline to their customer and access to her like they never had before, like they never could before. Clothes can happen now that never would have had a chance in the traditional chain of command of the way things worked.

  Byron Lars

  Media, Clothes, Thank God

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• When we blew the first atomic bomb at White Sands near the end of the war, nobody knew what was going to happen. There was a theory that the chain reaction would continue forever. And we would have created a little tiny sun out there in the desert that would burn until the end of the universe. It wasn't a widely held theory but it was a theory that nobody had a way of disproving. There were people who thought it wouldn't go off at all, that it would simply sit out there and melt and produce a great big dirty cloud of radioactivity. Nobody knew.

  Stephen King

  War, Dirty, White

  High Times Magazine Interview with Martha Thomases, John Robert Tebbel, October 1981.

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• Their property held them in chains...chains which shackled their courage and choked their faith and hampered their judgment and throttled their soul...If they stored up their treasure in heaven, they would not now have an enemy and a thief within their own household...They think of themselves as owners, whereas it is they rather who are owned: enslaved as they are to their own property, they are not the masters of their money but its slaves.

  Cyprian

  Thinking, Heaven, Soul

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• I saw a guy juggling chain saws, it was cool, unless something needed to be sawed down, then it's annoying.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Guy

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• When I was doing stunts, I had lots of cuts on my body because of the chain. Even though everybody took care of me, I still got hurt.

  Rain

  Hurt, Cutting, Body

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• You could increase farmworker wages significantly and not change the price to the consumer at all - for instance, if you redistribute how revenue is paid out across the food chain. Labor costs, particularly farm labor, is a tiny portion of the price we pay at the supermarket.

  Anna Lappe

  Cost, Wages, Pay

  "Anna Lappé Is Ready to Bust the Food Industry’s Biggest Myths". Interview with Tom Philpott, www.motherjones.com. October 2, 2013.

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• I don't believe in the clash of cultures. The culture is one. The culture is a ring off the same chain. Picasso was very much influenced by the African arts, and he influenced a whole other generation of artists. So everything influences everything.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Art, Believe, Generations

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• It's fun to sit down and do a few drawings, but when you have to sit down and do hundreds of drawings whose value only depends on getting to the end of the chain, then you've created a different kind of monster.

  Gary Panter

  Fun, Drawing, Monsters

  Interview with David Jacob Kramer, believermag.com. June 1, 2009.

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• Legal doctrine requiring a showing of evidence of racist intent and a narrow chain of causation has made it very difficult to prove in court that a person or group is experiencing racism because the standards are too narrow and too focused on individual intentions.

  Dean Spade

  Racism, Groups, Doctrine

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• It's hard to see any institutional structure that stands in the way of the homogenization and simplification of these supply chains in international capitalism, unless it is the nation state.

  James C. Scott

  Way, Structure, States

  "An Interview with James C. Scott | Harry G. West and Celia Plender". Gastronomica Interview, gastronomica.org. March 14, 2017.

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• Western society is a society of ever richer, more varied, more productive, more self-defined, and more satisfying lives; it is a society of boundless private charity; it is a society that broke, on behalf of merit, the seemingly eternal chains of station by birth.

  Ibn Warraq

  Self, Merit, Charity

  Source: counterjihadreport.com

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• I was once almost forced off the stage at a large chain bookstore that shall remain nameless, because she introduced me as Lemony Snicket, and I immediately interrupted her and said, "Oh no, Lemony Snicket isn't here," and then she tried to cancel the event right then and there.

  Daniel Handler

  Events, Bookstores, Stage

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2005.

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• The question of good and evil remains in irremediable chaos for those who seek to fathom it in reality. It is mere mental sport to the disputants, who are captives that play with their chains.

  Voltaire

  Sports, Reality, Play

  Voltaire (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)”, p.4171, Delphi Classics

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• The friendship between me and you I will not compare to a chain; for that the rains might rust, or the falling tree might break.

  George Bancroft

  Real, Rain, Fall

  George Bancroft (1841). “History of the Colonization of the United States”, p.49

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• Workers of the world awaken. Break your chains, demand your rights.
  All the wealth you make is taken, by exploiting parasites.
  Shall you kneel in deep submission from your cradle to your grave?
  Is the height of your ambition to be a good and willing slave?

  Joe Hill

  Struggle, Taken, Ambition

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• The thought "It's impossible" sets off a chain reaction of other thoughts to prove you're right.

  David J. Schwartz

  Impossible, Chain Reactions, Prove

  David J. Schwartz (2014). “The Magic of Thinking Big”, p.73, Penguin

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• We are not separate and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way.

  Thomas E. Mann

  Love, Friendship, Mean

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• Life is not a chain of events but an area-something spreading out from a hidden centre and welling at once toward all points of the compass.

  Stephen Graham

  Life, Science, Events

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